Blocking entire country?
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Hi folks,
We have a webiste and we see that large majority of attacks are from China, so we want to block China IP addresses (we have no customers from China).
My question is: will we get penalized by Google or other search engines?
Regards,
Nenad
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Great! Thank you for your answer.
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I am guessing the machine has a type of management on it. If you are on a static ip address I would have the sysadmin set the port to only accept connects from you, them, and the local connection from the sysadmin in the data center.
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Thank you very much for the answer
There are mostly brute force attacks on known root port. Any ideas how to stop this in better way?
Thanks,
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My question is: will we get penalized by Google or other search engines?
Let us know how it works. I might block New Jersey.
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If you do not block googlebot ip addresses in the process, you will not get penalized. But remember google does not post a list of their bot ip addresses, so be careful and monitor your GWT for error messages.
On a side note, what kind of attacks are you getting, there might be better ways to block them.
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